Bob, wow, I cannot imagine eating that much protein! Last night that pork chop says it was around 34g of protein and it was simply too much for me and left me frustrated and feeling kind of icky. I guess I wasn’t as clear (hard for me today as nothing now is making sense, trying to read emails at my new job and its all gibberish lol) My Mom and Dad have done Atkins. Mom said it was super easy, no hunger, no cravings. Dad on the other hand, going into it said it was hard, and he always slid back out of it the moment he could simply because he was miserable.
So now moving forward, hubby and me. Hubby has no problem giving up carbs, barely has hunger pangs. He says, sure he’d like a bowl of ice cream or something but it isn’t too bad. Me on the other hand, I find myself getting angry, annoyed, and moving more and more to a “well fine I won’t eat anything” mode because none of the food in front of me actually looks like something I would like to put in my mouth. Case in point, I have my carb free lunch of salad, chicken, celery sticks with cream cheese and sausage soup and I grabbed my raspberries and just ate those instead. I don’t know if I’ll eat my lunch later. I’m hungry, but it just does not look at all appetizing to me.
I have read there is a correlation between keto and cortisol levels increasing. It makes me wonder if there is something there??
I do actually track my food continuously by the way. Yesterday I had 58 of 95g of carbs allowed on the app, 27g fiber, 101g of fat, 96g of protein, 1562 calories. By dinner time that was when I actually added a lot of the carbs because my stomach was getting increasingly angry at me, indigestion, heartburn, burping up food, so I finally had a ginger ale and a handful of small pretzels. Calmed right back down so I could actually eat dinner.